Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena (1855)
Philadelphia : American Sunday-school Union · leaf 49
surface in contact with theunder rock is, however, of very small extent;and the whole mass is so nicely balanced, that,notwithstanding its magnitude, the strength ofa single man is sufficient to make it oscillate, 44 TERRESTRIAL PHENOMENA. ■when applied to the under edge. It is thenature of granite… … Sounds emitted from rocks have often beenregarded as portentous. Mr. G. Bennett, whenat Macao, had his attention directed to a massof granite rocks, appearing as if separated bysome convulsion of nature, many of whichwere found, when trodden on, to be movable.The first, and by far the most…
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